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Sunday, 6 July 2014

Under the sea (for 31 days)

No, it's no the song from the little mermaid but the latest achievement set by Fabien Cousteau and his team where they studied coral reefs in a small chamber 19 metres underwater off the coast
of Key Largo. The long-term underwater residence gave them a firsthand
glimpse of some never-before-seen underwater phenomena.

This mission, Cousteau said, was always about getting people to care
about the oceans so they will want to help protect them from
overfishing, pollution, climate change and other things humans are
throwing at them.

Cousteau, grandson of famed ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, timed the mission
to both mark the 50th anniversary of a similar long-term study his
grandfather conducted, and add a day to the 30-day record set half a
century ago. The team returned to land this week, armed with tons of data that will go towards multiple research papers.